When the archaeological team went to the construction site, they immediately entered the huge cave, the huge brick tomb has allowed the team members to determine that this place is indeed an ancient tomb, and through the preliminary investigation of the brick tomb, the archaeological team deduced that this is a Tang tomb.
However, to the great regret of the archaeological team, obvious traces of theft can be found in the tomb, and the number of thefts is obviously more than once. The archaeological team carried out protective excavations of the tombs, and after cleaning the tombs, they found a total of eight excavations belonging to each period, which meant that the tomb had been stolen eight times.
Since ancient times, China has a tradition of attaching importance to "posthumous affairs", and many people will place many things in the tomb. This tradition is culturally persequent, but it also spawned a profession: tomb robbery. Since the tradition of thick burial, the tomb robbery industry has risen, but before the Qin Dynasty, due to social concepts, there were not many tomb robbers, and after the Qin Dynasty, tomb robbery completely rose, and in subsequent dynasties repeatedly prohibited.
Although the identification and protection of cultural relics by tomb robbers is not professional, their vision of finding tombs and tomb Chinese is very keen. Generally speaking, most of the artifacts in an ancient tomb have been lost once it has been stolen, let alone eight times, so many people believe that there are no cultural relics in the tomb.
However, the archaeological team still did not give up the excavation of the ancient tomb, because this ancient tomb has another discovery, which is very important. In ancient times, class differentiation was more serious, and the etiquette system also had strict regulations for mausoleums, people of different identities had different specifications, and people of lower ranks were generally not allowed to exceed the specifications. However, in this Tang tomb, the archaeological team found that the stone rafters that only appear in the royal mausoleum, at first the owner of the tomb after the archaeological team was the Tang Dynasty royal family, but later through a small number of cultural relics excavated from the tomb, it was found that the owner was not an imperial family, but an official named Qin Shouyi.
However, why did an official's tomb dare to use royal specifications? It should be known that this specification can only be used by people licensed by the imperial family and the emperor, and ordinary officials will be severely punished if they are found to be used. Experts consulted the historical materials to find this Qin Shouyi, and finally found that his ancestors had been named the founding dukes by the imperial court, which may be the reason why he dared to use stone rafters as an official.
The artifacts in the tomb have been stolen, the only valuable thing is this stone rafter, the archaeological team is ready to transport the stone rafters as a whole to the museum for study, but this stone rafter is very heavy, it is difficult to transport it by hand, so the archaeological team transferred a crane, hoisted the stone rafters in its entirety, and then transported them to the museum.
In the process of transporting the stone rafters, the team members made new discoveries. In an alcove under the patio, the team members found many cultural relics, which were all very neatly arranged Tang Sancai. After the team members sorted out a total of eighty-two Pieces of Tang Sancai, these cultural relics have a history of more than a thousand years, but they are still bright in color, and they are precious national treasure-level cultural relics.
As for why the artifacts, which were stolen many times, have survived, the team speculates that it may be related to the location of the shrine, which is located under the patio and far from the burial chamber. After the tomb robbers enter the tomb, most of them will go straight to the main room, especially next to the coffin, because these places have the most cultural relics. Because of this, the tomb robbers missed these Tang Liucai stored in remote corners, so that they were not stolen.